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SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 28, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other
places across the web:

From Search Engine Land:

Yahoo Provides
NOYDIR Opt-Out Of Yahoo Directory Titles & Descriptions
Yahoo! Search Support for ‘NOYDIR’ Meta Tags and Weather Update from the Yahoo
Search Blog covers how at long last, you can now tell Yahoo to not use Yahoo
Directory information to make a title and/or description for your web page
listings. It also cover how Yahoo’s currently doing a…

40 Percent
Frustrated With Video Search
I’m generally suspicious of surveys that say things you’d expect them to say
by the company that commissioned them. In this case, ClipBlast — a video
search site — sends word of a survey covering frustration with video search.
Still, I’ll pass along some stats and the press release, for…

Google Buying
TV Scatter Units
Google Lays Groundwork for TV Scatter Sales Sortie at Advertising Age reports
that Google is looking to hire a head of national TV sales in New York and
dive into their TV ad play with "scatter inventory," ads that aren’t sold well
in advance. Google has been hiring TV engineers…

The SEOs Doing
It In-House
The Natural Search Blog has complied a list of prominent SEOs who work within
a company, in house work, rather than working for firms that specialize in
SEO. Often SEOs who work within a company do not get as much recognition as
those who work at SEO firms. In fact,…

Are You Putting
Web Search Results at Risk with Paid Advertising?
If you bid on keywords for a term or phrase that you rank well for in a search
engine, might your organic result be filtered in some instances, when your ad
appears on the same page? A newly granted Microsoft patent is the first I
recall seeing which discusses such…

Google Stepping
Up Governmental Sales
Google Searches For Government Work by the Washington Post has details on
Google’s current and future government sales operations. Yesterday, Google
started a two-day sales event aimed at the U.S. government. The event
reportedly brought in "200 federal contractors, engineers and uniformed
military members." Rob Painter, director of the Google…

Is Voice And
Mobile Search Company TellMe For Sale?
TechCrunch speculates that voice services and mobile local search provider
TellMe is going to be sold to Microsoft. Right now this is unconfirmed rumor.
But it would be a very interesting acquisition for Microsoft, and addition to
their mobile local search/voice assets, if true. I’ve written more about this
on…

Monitoring
Buries At Digg
Earlier this month, I wrote a long article looking at how some people at Digg
might bury stories just because they disliked the topic rather than the story
content itself. Indeed, many doing buries might not have read the article.
Worse, they might use the bury reason of "spam" rather…

Google Maps
Tailgates Yahoo, Microsoft With Real-Time Traffic Info
Google Maps has caught up with Yahoo and Microsoft in adding live traffic
reporting for the United States to their online mapping service. Google
Operating System spotted the change today (and Google now has the official
word up here). To see the traffic yourself, just go to Google Maps and…

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